Data centers are the key to leveraging information technology assets to optimize the strategic value of an information system. For small businesses, data centers have typically evolved in a haphazard fashion, creating a situation where servers and storage devices are underutilized, available communications capacity is overlooked, collaboration and knowledge sharing is minimal, maintenance requirements are excessive, scaling or repurposing is costly, security is poor, seemingly simple modifications turn into giant hassles, and full recovery from catastrophic failure is virtually impossible.
Cisco's most recent networking devices and tools support a new model of data center design that permits continual enhancements in processor, storage, network infrastructure, and applications in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can help you to select and implement Cisco's connectivity technology to build a robust basis for your data center and to improve your operations in vital areas such as:
- Processor and storage efficiency
- End-to-end security enforcement
- Server proliferation
- Regulatory requirements
- Disaster recovery
The important advantages that can accrue from using Progent's Cisco-certified consultants to streamline your data center include:
- Reduced TCO: enables IT management to significantly reduce acquisition costs through integration and higher utilization of previously isolated equipment, lower operational costs by streamlining and automating management jobs, and reduce HVAC and power costs.
- Greater Business Agility: enables IT management to react dynamically to evolving business conditions by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure services from common pools of integrated processor, storage, and network technologies. This can streamline operational processes and enable policy-based control.
- Better Network Robustness: enables IT to respond to breakdowns or attacks by guarding infrastructure, applications, and data through the highest degrees of availability, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
- Optimized Service Levels: enables IT to optimize business service levels by implementing safe, fast access to data center-resident applications and information from any place and at any time throughout the organization.
Samples of Progent's Professional Assistance for Cisco-based Data Centers
Progent's network experts can provide a broad array of consulting services that can help businesses of all sizes implement a Cisco-powered architecture that will give your data center a resilient and protected foundation for existing applications and future expansion. Support services include:
- Building effective firewall protection solutions based on PIX and ASA firewall products
- Installing and troubleshooting secure Virtual Private Network access for connecting data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
- Designing, and integrating complete non-stop switching, routing, and Internet connectivity systems in which single point failures do not interrupt availability of services
- Setting up multiple Internet providers with seamless transfer using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Progent can guide customers along the entire path of paperwork with Internet authorities, getting Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses allotted, dealing with ISP carriers to prepare their environments, and configuring and testing customer equipment.
- Implementing segmented and protected virtual LAN architectures to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
- Planning, deploying and helping clients to manage proactive intrusion prevention systems (IPS) so that assaults can be identified rapidly and defeated before they impact productivity
- Planning, setting up, and troubleshooting load balancing solutions. Working with clients, Progent can align customer needs to the appropriate solutions and implement load balancing at the application and server levels, or connectivity infrastructure layer. Such solutions allow for transparent and convenient growth, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Progent can create affordable network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol and Cisco's Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and various outside vendor solutions that offer customers a powerful look into the health of their data center's network
- Setting up and troubleshooting advanced data center class infrastructure appliances such as the Catalyst 4500, 6500, and 6800 Series switches, Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200 and 7600 family routers.
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